For the 4th of July, another picture of Mt. Rainier, taken yesterday.

I wore hiking boots, but there was enough snow yesterday so that I might have been a little better off with cross country skis.  Either will work, at least for the next week or so.  If you have kids who like to play in the snow, this would be a great time to take them to Rainier.

If you do visit Rainier, you should know that there is a shortage of parking spaces at Paradise, on the south side of the mountain.  At least there is a shortage if you arrive in the middle of the day on a weekend, as most visitors do.  When I got to the park entrance yesterday at about eight in the morning, there was one car in the pay lane and none in the pass lane.  When I left at about one in the afternoon, there was a line of cars at least a half mile long at the same entrance.  (And, of course, the hiking and skiing are better earlier in the day, and you are far more likely to get good pictures in the morning (and late in the day) than in the middle of the day.)

Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.

(The picture is a panorama, stitched together from five separate pictures.  The stitching software, which came with my Olympus C-765, works well — as long as I hold the camera level as I take the original pictures.)